[COLUG] Mail server advice

[Duane]

Aaron Howard wrote:

> A further note of interest to me personally (nobody else may take
> comfort in it) is that the FBI, et. al., is already awash in data.
> They have more data than they can comb through.  The more information
> is gathered into central databases, the more likely that data will
> grow old and become "wrong".  (eg., A lot of credit records are loaded
> with crap.)  I know there is a downside to the government relying on
> databases full of inaccurate info but there's a plus as well: soon the
> signal-to-noise ratio of the data collected in these databases will
> approach the level of what SETI has to deal with and finding anything
> of interest by ne'erdowells will be like searching for E.T. in all
> that hiss.

Which is why I have this love hate relationship with spam. It's annoying
as all hell but it provides a nice level of white noise that has to
additionally combed through.

On the flip side of course as spam filters get better it means better
general filtering for stuff they do want to find.

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Best regards,
 Duane

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